What do you do and where?

[Signe]

Well, then you should have some sort of reddish name, shouldn't you?  At least dark pink or maroon-y. 

Garçon!  Please french this developer some waiter.

[Yegolev]

It's pretty ironic that this thread is now all about someone with no job.

[Sky]

I find it very difficult not to ask the new guy for a job.  NE

Unfortunately, all the job listings are for talented people. And I'm a lowly mac admin :P

Where in NE are you guys located, or are you using the outsider NE=Boston :) I'd love to find something in VT and then get the little lady settled into some nice one-room library there.

[tommh]

We're in Andover MA

Sorry we have no Macs.

[schild]

Blame yourself for that.

[tommh]

To be honest I've never seen a Mac at any game developers or publishers office. I've got nothing against the beasties but you can't make games on em.

[Phildo]

I suspect some of the farmed-out audio work is done on macs.  Quite possibly a lot of it.

[tommh]

You could be right, I don't know much about where the grunts and exsplodie bits come from.

[mol]

With any luck this will be here tomorrow...

I'm a senior software developer at a large social networking site in San Francisco. I'm old friends with Sauced/Kelavere/Fantod/That One from the days of Everquest.

[Nebu]

With any luck this will be here tomorrow...

I'm a senior software developer at a large social networking site in San Francisco. I'm old friends with Sauced/Kelavere/Fantod/That One from the days of Everquest.

Welcome to the party. 

Don't take the deletion personally.  There's been a lot of that going around the past few days. 

[schild]

Some people should take it personally.

(Not saying you, mol.)

[Sky]

I'm old friends with Sauced/Kelavere/Fantod/That One from the days of Everquest.

Obama! 

[Chimpy]

So ya....I finally got a real full time job today (though I have been working there for 3 months as a temp).

I am second tier technical support for an ISP/video provider for apartment complexes. Mostly large college "apartment communities" or luxury apartment/condo places.

Nothing glamorous, but a job with medical/dental/paid holidays and vacation is better than being jobless in this day and age. It is also good in that the company is privately financed.

[Nerf]

I got fired on wednesday, I'm pretty happy about it, the wonderful world of golf cart sales turned out to be not so wonderful.

I'm going to crank out a bunch of shiny wood computer cases now, I only need to crank out a couple per week to make more than I was making before anyways.

[schild]

Wrong, you need to SELL a couple per week.

[Nerf]

Touche.

I really don't seem them not selling at $300 or a bit more each though, they are absolutely fucking stunning, and nice looking cases are pricey.

[Signe]

Soooo... your dad sells them for $475 and you sell them for $300.  Uh oh.

[Phildo]

It's the difference between a master and an apprentice, really.

[Endie]

crank out... crank out

The voice of American craftsmanship.

[sigil]

So, I got fired from the beer distributor because the CEO blamed me for the fact that he could not operate his phone. Well that and people sending him mail to the wrong domain is somehow my fault.  S'ok, the stress of the job was hell. They did give me four weeks severance, probably because I could have sued successfully to get my job back, but that would be like fighting for the right to have testicular cancer.

Now,  I work a job in the same field that is far below my mental capacity but has a much larger office,  pays 30 percent more, has better benefits and is literally four hundred feet from my front door. Between the extra money and their paying of my training and getting the last of my certs, I'm definitely thinking this was a win for the start of the next phase of my career...

[Oban]

So, I got fired from the beer distributor because the CEO blamed me for the fact that he could not operate his phone. Well that and people sending him mail to the wrong domain is somehow my fault.  S'ok, the stress of the job was hell. They did give me four weeks severance, probably because I could have sued successfully to get my job back, but that would be like fighting for the right to have testicular cancer.

Now,  I work a job in the same field that is far below my mental capacity but has a much larger office,  pays 30 percent more, has better benefits and is literally four hundred feet from my front door. Between the extra money and their paying of my training and getting the last of my certs, I'm definitely thinking this was a win for the start of the next phase of my career...

The harder you work, the less you get paid.  Or at least this is my current operating theory.

[Yegolev]

I really don't seem them not selling at $300 or a bit more each though, they are absolutely fucking stunning, and nice looking cases are pricey.

Hey.  I need a custom computer case/cabinet.  Let me know if you can do this:
1. caster wheels
2. easy intertior access
3. keyboard at sit-on-a-sofa height
4. keyboard protrudes but wheels do not, assume no legs so cabinet would be flush against sofa

I can draw pictures.

[Oz]

The harder you work, the less you get paid. 

This definantly applies to Science...

[Viin]

The harder you work, the less you get paid.  Or at least this is my current operating theory.

You guys are doing it wrong.

Anytime you are promoted and make more money, you should be working *less*. Sure you are responsible for more, but you shouldn't be the one digging the ditches.. you should be the one saying where to dig the ditches and then come check to make sure it was done right. And so on up.

If your field does it the opposite, then you need a new field! Or a new company!   

[apocrypha]

If your field does it the opposite, then you need a new field! Or a new company!   

And this is why I left my 15 year science career ;)

Of course now I'm jobless, broke and crippled, but I'm still happier than when I was managing a tissue engineering lab 

[Endie]

If your field does it the opposite, then you need a new field! Or a new company!   

And this is why I left my 15 year science career ;)

Of course now I'm jobless, broke and crippled, but I'm still happier than when I was managing a tissue engineering lab 

A tissue engineering lab?  Did you struggle daily with the quest to find just the right mixture of strength and softness so it wouldn't chafe nor rip when you blew your nose?  Did you have to work for that terrifying toddler in a suit from the Andrex ads?

On a more serious note, do you mean you're moving to a new field?  If so, what do you train for after 15 years in a specialised field?  Photography (judging by the professional results in the pic a day thread)?

[apocrypha]

A tissue engineering lab?  Did you struggle daily with the quest to find just the right mixture of strength and softness so it wouldn't chafe nor rip when you blew your nose?  Did you have to work for that terrifying toddler in a suit from the Andrex ads?

Hey, T2 Tissues don't design themselves you know! ;)

On a more serious note, do you mean you're moving to a new field?  If so, what do you train for after 15 years in a specialised field?  Photography (judging by the professional results in the pic a day thread)?

Yeah that's the plan. I'd set up a business, got a few commercial jobs, was doing some freelance assistant (i.e. carrying stuff!) for a local studio, doing a part-time course and
trying to build a respectable portfolio and then I fucked my back. All on a bit of a hiatus now although I'm still managing to do the course.

[Signe]

If your field does it the opposite, then you need a new field! Or a new company!   

And this is why I left my 15 year science career ;)

Of course now I'm jobless, broke and crippled, but I'm still happier than when I was managing a tissue engineering lab 

By crippled, I assume you mean you stay home all day and get legless, right?  Don't correct me.  It's too early to make me sorry.

[apocrypha]

By crippled, I assume you mean you stay home all day and get legless, right?  Don't correct me.  It's too early to make me sorry.

Haha, um ok :p   It's ok, my crippling is (hopefully) only temporary :)

Edit: Anyway, Jimbo's told me off once about drinking so none of that ;)

[Strazos]

I took the FSOT (Foreign Service Officer Test) today. Hopefully I get an invite to DC for the next phase of my application in a few weeks. 

Had to drive about 40 miles north to some community college test center to take the thing, but had some student chick checking me out. Too bad I was too busy getting set up to take this thing to, erm...pursue any possibilities. Oh well.

[Viin]

I took the FSOT (Foreign Service Officer Test) today. Hopefully I get an invite to DC for the next phase of my application in a few weeks. 

I had no idea what a FSO was, had to look it up. Sounds cool(ish), though starting at the bottom of any gov'ment pay scale blows. But who knows, maybe you'd end up in Cambodia!

[Strazos]

The bottom of the FSO payscale is....much more than I am getting now.

Amazingly, I don't need much. Give me a serviceable PC or high-powered laptop, palatable food that doesn't somehow make me ill, and a stable internet connection, and I'm pretty much good to go.

Going skiing once a year would be a nice plus. And not getting robbed, that's always nice.

[Cheddar]

Has anyone here worked for HP or know someone who has had experience working for them?  Specifically as a server engineer; just curious as to what the corporate culture is like.

[Oban]

FSO means freespace optics.

Duh.

[bhodi]

Has anyone here worked for HP or know someone who has had experience working for them?  Specifically as a server engineer; just curious as to what the corporate culture is like.

Did you get laid off? :(

HP does not take all that good care of their employees. It is not like the "Compaq days", if a friend of mine who talked about it is to be believed. If possible, you should be a sales engineer, or one attached to sales. What you want to do is go around and configure storage and server solutions for customers once they buy HP products. I *almost* took a job doing that; you get paid quite well (much better than in-house staff) and it's local travel only.